DSL-AC56U ASUS router wont connect with dongles, please help

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i have 2 dongles:

Huawei E5573
HuaweiE3372H - 153

can'tt get either of them to work in the ASUS DSL-AC56U, both work and connect with openVPN in windows, what settings must be applied to make this possible please so the router connects? i plug in and nothing happens.

need to do it in router to connect a VPN and have wired connections.
 
Your post needs elaborating since I can't make sense of it.

The two 'dongles' are a mifi 4G device and a USB 4G dongle. What do you mean when you want them to work with your Asus router? They're not really designed to, they are designed to connect to the internet on their own.

I'm also not sure of the relevance of OpenVPN here. With a little more explanation of what you are trying to achieve I'm sure we can help.
 
relevance is i need to use that asus router with a dongle, in another country, to connect to a VPN at router level to allow Ethernet plugged in devices (VOIP phone and laptop) to connect to the VPN, I have VPNServer setup at home, VPNclient ready to connect on that asus router, and it says 3g/4g dongle support on the router, but its not connecting to either of those 2 mentioned ones.

Still not reply from ASUS support, thanks for trying to help, any ideas?
 
do you believe what im trying to do should work? so if the router connects to a VPNclient, all wired devices will show that VPN IP?
 
those are all old jurrasic era 3G dongles, all the ones on supported list are terrible, surely brand new models with 4G would be supported you'd think?
 
So I can think of a random way or two to maybe solve this problem.

If you had a 4G modem router that had an Ethernet LAN port you could connect that to the Ethernet WAN port of the Asus router. Such things exist - I've used a TP-Link Archer MR-200 for such a purpose. This would leave you double-NAT instead of using a supported dongle in the Asus if that's a problem.

Alternatively, and while it should work in theory, I've never tried it - you could get a cheap device that can act as a wireless bridge (about £30 on Amazon) and connect it in client mode to your existing MiFi device's wireless network and plug its ethernet port into the WAN of your Asus. In effect you're using it instead of a cable in the above solution. It's cheap but a clunky solution that I couldn't guarantee to work.

Probably just getting a supported dongle is the smartest way to do this as already suggested even if it is ancient slow tech.
 
yeah ill have to get a supported dongle, even though none of them are 4G and it advertises supports 3G and 4G on the box lol, ASUS are the bain of my life.
 
uk-vpn said:
do you believe what im trying to do should work? so if the router connects to a VPNclient, all wired devices will show that VPN IP?
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If I'm understanding you properly, the Asus router will need to route all traffic down the VPN and the OpenVPN support a Tunnel All type option so it can then route traffic back out to the Internet.
 
He can get the Asus to do that. The actual problem here is that the OP needs to give the Asus an internet connection via mobile signal and the OP's 4G dongles/mifi devices don't work with the Asus router directly. Get the Asus onto the internet and the rest will follow.
 
uk-vpn said:
yeah ill have to get a supported dongle, even though none of them are 4G and it advertises supports 3G and 4G on the box lol, ASUS are the bain of my life.
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Support wise 6 y/o dongles are supported and certified by 6 year old routers produced by companies who have no financial interest in certifying more modern hardware and a documented history of not doing what they claim on the box. While the AC56/68 has the same CPU/RAM and are certainly capable routers, you chose the version with built modem which means ASUS dropped firmware support a while back iirc, more importantly you can’t use 3rd party firmware such as OpenWRT/DDWRT/Merlin/Tomato etc. which included - among other things - improved support for dongles. The 3G/4G point is moot, because you are running OpenVPN on the router (if you want speed, don’t use OpenVPN), it’ll be capped at circa 20Mbit anyway. Not sure I’d want to run VoIP over a 3G, you’re introducing the encryption/decryption latency on an already higher latency connection due to 3G and then pushing it out of the VM connection, it’s likely to end in jitter.

It’s clear from your last thread that you are doing this to try and con your employer into thinking you are working from home while elsewhere, having been on both sides of that situation it can and does end badly, at best working from home privileges get revoked at worst I know of one person who lost his job and got taken to court (twice). As you don’t seem that aware of what you are doing, ask yourself if what you are doing is worth potentially loosing your job over or worse?
 
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